Month of May 2015
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Reinventing a PHP MVC framework, part 4 of 4
In this fourth part, I end up with a framework that is useable, although there is still a long way to go before it is practical. I explore URL rewriting in Apache and Microsoft IIS for creating much nicer URLs.
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Reinventing a PHP MVC framework, part 3 of 4
In this article, I explore the class loading mechanism in PHP, and use it to automatically load the correct Controller class for my MVC implementation. This uses reflection, which is notoriously difficult to unit-test in PHP, so unfortunately I break TDD principles for now.
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Reinventing a PHP MVC framework, part 2 of 4
Now I start working on the request and response mechanisms of my PHP MVC framework. Little by little, the framework grows in a test-driven way, and the things I haven't made yet are mocked for now.